Archeologia Arborea – a conversation with Isabella Dalla Ragione
Isabella Dalla Ragione is defined as an “arboreal archaeologist”. Together with her father Livio she searched for neglected fruit trees that no longer satisfied changing agricultural trends, market demands and modern tastes and created an orchard of endangered cherries, figs, apples, pears, peaches, quinces and other sundry species. Then they created the Archeologia Arborea project, […]
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MUSIC WITH THE IIC – Carlotta Dalia
Carlotta Dalia, born in 1999 in Grosseto, started studying classical guitar at the tender age of 8. She has already participated in major public performances at numerous festivals in Italy and abroad, holding her first solo recital at the age of 12 and taking part in countless national and international competitions. Her expressive capacity and […]
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Cover Revolution! Illustrators of the new face of Italian publishing
A revolution is taking place on Italian bookstores shelves: more and more often illustrators are being asked to use their color palettes and distinctive marks to update publishers’ visual identities or redefine an author’s image. A handful of publishers, talented art directors, and a group of internationally acclaimed Italian illustrators, known for their original and […]
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Culture Night 2018 at the IIC
Culture Night is an annual all-island public event that celebrates culture, creativity and the arts. This year, it will take place on Friday 22nd September 2017. On Culture Night, arts and cultural organisations and venues of all shapes and sizes, including the National Cultural Institutions, extend their opening hours to allow for increased access to […]
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Fare Scuola – “The Cold Summer”: book launch with Gianrico Carofiglio
Gianrico Carofiglio, internationally acclaimed novelist and former anti-Mafia judge, presents his hard-hitting, morally complex novel The Cold Summer.Pietro Fenoglio, an officer of the Carabinieri recently jilted by his wife, must simultaneously deal with his personal crisis and the gang wars raging around Bari in the summer of 1992. The case is stalled until a Mafia […]
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Lunchtime recital at St. Ann’s Church – Aldo De Vero & Giuseppe Campisi piano duo
Aldo De Vero and Giuseppe Campisi met in 2006 and decided to form a piano duet.Since then, they have played an amazing number of concerts in Italy and Europe, though Aldo lives in Naples and Giuseppe lives in Avola, Sicily.What makes their (very long distance!) rehearsal meetings fruitful and alive is the awakening of a […]
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Italian Contemporary Illustration – Exhibition Annual 2018 by AI Autori di Immagini
Associazione Autori di Immagini presents an exhibition that showcases the excellence of Italian illustration by presenting the winners of Annual 2018, a competition gathering the best examples across different fields of graphic design. This year’s exhibition consists of 28 illustrations designed to accompany covers and texts of books, magazines, newspapers, books for children, books of […]
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Fare Scuola – “La maestra e la camorrista” with Federico Fubini
Throughout the last few centuries, the considerable gap between the wealthy and the poor in Italy has barely decreased and those who are born in poverty rarely make it out. Why is this inequality so persistent in time? What role does education play in shaping social order? And how do poverty and lack of education […]
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Exhibition: Small Utopias – Italian architecture of the third millennium between history, research and innovation
The Italian Institute of Culture, in collaboration with MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo and the Irish Architectural Archive, are pleased to present Small Utopias, an exhibition on the “new” Italian architecture curated and designed by MAXXI Architettura. The exhibition combines the research of the best Italian architectural energies along three parallel […]
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Fare Scuola – “Il sogno di un’altra scuola” with Eraldo Affinati
Eraldo Affinati is the founder of the first Penny Wirton School in Rome, a volunteer-based educational institution where migrants can learn Italian. His approach to education is inspired by the work of Lorenzo Milani, who in the 1950’s and 60’s denounced the inequalities of an educational system that reinforced the marginalisation of children from poor […]
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